childish wisdom

The otherday someone told me a story about how her very young child told her something that happened to be true. We are told that words of wisdom spoken from our children will confound the wise. As a child, I used to understand things that were learned in a book as having been taught by someone so wise who lived years ago. I figured it could probably be explained by all of the "open information".  So much more was available to me as a child that I was taught and understood things only wise men would have been privy to before. Now, kids learn Algebra in grade school. It makes sense. Mathematics are really just a different way to percieve things and quantify them. Like Geometry, the only thing I remembered from that class was that we do not need to have all of the angles to figure out what things are.

I have noticed how much brighter sucessive generations are, well, I could explain that by the theory my friend Bryan called "Family Repentance". Each generation gains the truth to start with that it took their parents a lifetime to realize, and that same sort of evolution he wisely applied to faith generationally improved because we want our children to have better than we did and we are sorry for somethings that we make sure are not repeated.

But, the pinnacle observation came from noticing my own children. The disciplinarian likes to falsely believe that they are controlling behavior, but I have seen beyond the rebelliousness of the "No's". I have seen truth in the belief that our person is composed of two governing forces, LDS call it Natural (Physical) and Spiritual because the teaching is that we all existed in a spiritual world before coming to mortality. Really, this should not be uncommon and it should be taught in other Christian faiths using the Bible, but I cannot speak as to what they teach or believe because too many try to tell you what Mormon's believe and I cannot say they always get things correct or even have YOUR best interest in mind. So Children are born with a knowledge of what is true inside of them. My children know that hurting someone is wrong not because of the punishment AFTER they do it, if we really learned that way, how would we teach that murder is wrong, and how many times must a punishment be exacted before the correct response is learned?

I assert that Children are born with so much knowledge, and hopefully something I have said will support this claim. I can see it in their faces unspoken that they know which would be the right thing to do, teaching is good, it provides another testimony, but I wonder if when we teach all of the things we think are essential we have just basically undone alot of their inborn programing.

I have a story to share in regards to that learning undoing reflexive wisdom. I wrote music all of the time, not because I ever had any sort of ambition, It was what I loved to do. On weekends, like now, I would be sitting around composing music instead of increasing my social skills like the other successful wives. Finally, in classes I realized that my favorite composer was not that fantastic. I developed a greater palate or maybe selective is a better description. I just could not feel any excitement by his music anymore I felt more powerful delightful (ironically melancholy or sad) music and saw how country bumpkinish my taste was. I looked at the piano concerto I wrote and it was exactly following the form that I was now being taught, but I had not been taught that, infact, it had undone any instinct I had for the creative process, now it had become more of a chore. Sure the next piano concerto I wrote was so much better, but it did not create a feeling in me to write it which was what made me persue it in the first place. creating music was my natural passion...was, that ultimately explains why I realized not being able to write music like that anymore was a blessing, actually. There were several things that came naturally with my singing that I never valued anyway, but others wanted to know how I did it, and frankly I did not know. Or I would relear how to do them...